Victoria

Parenting

Soaring school costs are pricing struggling families out of education

A plain school jacket cost $30 last year but is now $50. Pants that were $38 are now $52. A tsunami of rising education costs is overwhelming families on struggle street.

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Higher Education

AI is outperforming humans and unis need to catch up: Professor

Unis are obsessed with trying to catch AI cheats but missing the bigger picture – their courses aren’t equipping students for an AI-dominated world, argues a senior academic.

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Secondary

Ave Maria principal quits amid leadership probe

The principal of Catholic school Ave Maria has quit her high profile job just months after she faced external review of her ‘damaging’ management style.

VIC Education

‘Quietly confident’: Nerves, excitement as VCE exams kick off

Five sets of twins from De La Salle College will be among more than 47,000 Victorian Year 12 students sitting the all-important English test on Tuesday, getting the ball rolling on the 2025 VCE exam season. Here’s how it will play out.

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Victoria

Another blow for Melbourne childcare staff left in the lurch

Devastated childcare workers who haven’t been paid for weeks have been dealt another blow, with a third Genius Childcare subsidiary entering administration on Wednesday afternoon.

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Full ListVictoria

‘Troubled’ Victorian childcare centres lose $200m, hundreds fail safety standards

Leading childcare companies which operate hundreds of centres in Victoria are haemorrhaging money as they fail to meet national safety and quality standards. See which centres make the list.

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Victoria

56 family daycare centres in Victoria closed under emergency order

Authorities have ordered the interim closure of dozens of centres while compliance and sleep risk assessments are carried out following the death of a baby in Melbourne’s southeast.

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FULL LISTVictoria

Check your suburb: Where 65 kinders will be built, upgraded

Families will have access to 6500 new kinder spaces this year, with 65 centres opening after being built or undergoing upgrades. Search our interactive map to see all the new kinders near you.

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Regions

Best single-sex schools in Victoria revealed as enrolments surge

Victoria’s single-sex school sector is thriving, with some growing by as much as 30 per cent in the past decade and offering high scores for mid-range fees. See the best ones near you.

Victoria

More than 4600 children injured at Victorian childcare services

More than 660 Victorian children were locked out or unaccounted for across the state’s childcare services last financial year, with more than 6100 serious incidents reported, a shocking new report has revealed.

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ExclusiveVictoria

The ‘lifechanging’ development coming to Victoria’s kinders

Children with disabilities will have more freedom and independence at kinder than before, thanks to ‘lifechanging’ upgrades and renovations taking place at more than 400 centres.

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Victoria

Eye-watering costs families set to fork out for 13 years of schooling

Prep students starting private school this year are tipped to cost their parents the equivalent of three average house deposits in fees over 13 years, forcing many to sacrifice holidays and work more hours to foot the bill.

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VIC Education

What your elite private school says about you

Victoria’s elite private schools come with ballrooms, polo pavilions and headline-making scandals. The kids wear blazers and the parents drive Range Rovers. Here is what yours says about you.

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InteractiveGeelong

Geelong’s richest and poorest schools revealed

Geelong’s richest school pulled in $239.3m in the past five years, while the poorest school’s income was $4.8m for the same time period, an independent analysis has revealed. SEARCH THE LIST

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